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The killing of Charlie Kirk and the end of the "global town square"
On the state of X, AI "enhancements", and the balkanization of Twitter into anti-social media.
Sep 12
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Brian Merchant
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Cognitive scientists and AI researchers make a forceful call to reject “uncritical adoption" of AI in academia
A new paper calls on academia to repel rampant AI in university departments and classrooms.
Sep 7
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Brian Merchant
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One of the last, best hopes for saving the open web and a free press is dead
The Google ruling is a disaster. Let the AI slop flow and the writers, journalists and creators get squeezed.
Sep 4
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Brian Merchant
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August 2025
A $500 billion tech company's core software product is encouraging child suicide
It sounds horrific. It should. Let's be clear about the material circumstances of what's happening rather than handwaving about 'the dangers of AI'
Aug 28
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Brian Merchant
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Ground the choppers
The LAPD's helicopter mania is both a policy disaster and a symbol of our malignant, badly functioning surveillance state.
Aug 26
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Brian Merchant
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AI Killed My Job: Translators
Few industries have been hit by AI as hard as translation. Rates are plummeting. Work is drying up. Translators are considering abandoning the field, or…
Aug 21
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Brian Merchant
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How California feels about AI
Spoiler: Not great. Plus, how AI is raising our electricity bills, the chatbot therapist that failed to intervene in a suicide, and what lays behind…
Aug 19
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Brian Merchant
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The real winner of the AI boom so far? Big Cloud
How Microsoft, Google, and Amazon are concentrating even more power in the age of AI.
Aug 15
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Brian Merchant
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GPT-5 is a joke. Will it matter?
How the fraught release of the most-hyped AI product yet clarifies the stakes.
Aug 12
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Brian Merchant
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AI disagreements
Inside a closed-door AI doomer conference with rationalists, tech executives, and the acolytes of Silicon Valley's "new religion"
Aug 7
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Brian Merchant
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Automating the mass shooting victim
On AI as a false simulacrum of hope for change. Plus: A copyedit chief on being 'replaced' by AI, Elon Musk is voted least popular newsmaker in America…
Aug 6
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Brian Merchant
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The AI bubble is so big it's propping up the US economy (for now)
Plus how American professors are fighting back against the AI onslaught, a backlash over AI models in Vogue, and more.
Aug 3
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Brian Merchant
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